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Silver standard   /sˈɪlvər stˈændərd/   Listen
Silver standard

noun
1.
A monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is defined by a stated quantity of silver.





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"Silver standard" Quotes from Famous Books



... that the silver-habit is dragging us down to the demnition bow-wows, another that only an heroic dose of white dollars will save us from industrial death. Political claptrap to corral the succulent pie— "issues" to get office. We have had high and low tariff, the gold and silver standard, greenbackism and "wild-cat" currency; we have had presidents of all shades of political faith and congresses of every kind of economic folly; yet in a single century America has risen from the poorest of nations to the wealthiest in all the world. True it is that wealth is congested—that ...
— Volume 12 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann


Words linked to "Silver standard" :   standard, monetary standard


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